“Cherry resisted officers’ attempts to persuade him to surrender from his room in a hotel near Interstate 10 in Phoenix for several hours, all the while tweeting ‘threatening messages about not being taken alive’ and warning that he would ‘kill the cops surrounding him,’ the statement said … Eventually, Cherry was arrested without incident,’ it said.”‘

It seems some of the threats were also aimed at Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and the sheriff’s office indicated that “an actual bomb was mailed to the Sheriff, but was intercepted,” adding that “awareness for these kinds of threats is heightened.”

Another report indicates that social networking ultimately led police to the man they believe made the Arias bomb threat, and that detectives “traced the Twitter activity to a hotel in west Phoenix.”

At the hotel, both Cherry and a female companion identified as his girlfriend were found. Cherry was arrested and charged with a felony count of making threats, and the woman was questioned and released.